I’ve cured a strange problem, so I thought I’d share the solution here. Interior WordPress.com pages and individual posts were not loading. Trying to load them in Firefox or IE resulted in a white page. Front pages were fine. My self-hosted installations of WordPress blogs were also fine.
“View Source” showed that the full page was loading, but nothing was being displayed. Odd. I tracked the problem down to one script line in the page headers that called in:
http://s2.wordpress.com/wp-includes/js/comment-reply.js
I blocked this in Firefox by adding it to the AdBlock Plus addon’s block-list, just as it is above. It instantly cured the problem. WordPress.com interior pages and individual posts now load without a problem. I can also post comments without any problem.
I suspect the problem may have arisen because WordPress.com has moved on to using the very latest version, 2.8.6. But I haven’t been able to find any blog chatter from other people complaining about non-loading interior pages.
by Debra
18 Dec 2009 at 08:12
Thanks for posting this.
I found this post via a google search – I’ve been having this problem, and have reported it to support, who have advised me it’s a connectivity issue caused by my ISP.
Oddly enough, location does seem to come into it somehow, but I’m not sure why that would be. I’ll forward the info to wp and hope they fix it before I give up and move my blog to another platform.